Awards in the Creative Arts

The Division of the Arts provides research support to faculty, staff, and students in the arts. Each spring, the Division of the Arts recognizes achievements and professional service along with supporting future creative endeavors and research. The call for applications and nominations is released early each fall semester with a deadline in November. The Division of the Arts offers five awards annually and one award bi-annually, amounting to approximately $84,000. The grants are divided into three categories: Arts Faculty Research, Arts Faculty and Staff Outreach, and Undergraduate and Graduate Student Achievement in the Arts.

2019 Recipients

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2019 Awards in the Creative Arts!

Awards

Arts Faculty Research

The Creative Arts Award (established in 1995) recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW-Madison arts faculty in the areas of art; communication arts; creative writing; dance; design studies (formerly environment, textile, and design); music composition and performance; and theatre and drama.

The award provides $30,000 of general research support to a faculty member in the creative arts.

The Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW-Madison arts faculty in the areas of art; communication arts; creative writing; dance; design studies (formerly environment, textile, and design); music composition and performance; and theatre and drama.

This award provides $20,000 of general research support to a faculty member in the creative arts.

Recipients of the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts

Andrea Harris (Dance, 2018)

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (English, 2018)

Lisa Gralnick (Art, 2017)

Beverly Taylor (Music, 2017)

Ann Archbold (Theatre and Drama, 2016)

John Hitchcock (Art, 2016)

Mary Hark (Design Studies, 2015)

Judith Claire Mitchell (English, 2015)

Joseph Koyykar (Dance, 2014)

Fred Stonehouse (Art, 2014)

David Furumoto (Theatre and Drama, 2013)

Uri Vardi (Music, 2013)

Stephen Dembski (Music, 2012)

Jesse Lee Kercheval (Creative Writing/English, 2012)

Nancy Mladenoff (Art, 2011)

Christopher Taylor (Music, 2011)

Amy Quan Barry (Creative Writing Program/English, 2010)

Anthony Di Sanza (Music, 2010)

Stephen Hilyard (Art, 2009)

Douglas Rosenberg (Art, 2009)

Patricia Boyette (Theatre and Drama, 2008)

Lorrie Moore (Creative Writing, 2008)

Jennifer Angus (Environment, Textiles and Design, 2007)

Gail Simpson (Art, 2007)

Wei Dong (Environment, Textile and Design, 2006)

Laura Elise Schwendinger (Music, 2006)

Diane Sheehan (Environment, Textiles and Design, 2005)

TL Solien (Art, 2005)

Jin-Wen Yu (Dance, 2004)

Sonya Clark (Environment, Textiles and Design, 2004)

Li Chiao-Ping (Dance, 2003)

Carol Pylant (Art, 2002)

Laurie Beth Clark (Art, 2001)

Stephanie Jutt (Music, 2000)

Douglas Hill (Music, 1999)

Nietzchka Keene (Comm Arts, 1998)

Javier Calderon (Music, 1997)

Thomas Loeser (Art, 1997

JJ Murphy (Comm Arts, 1997)

Arts Faculty and Staff Outreach

The Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts (established in 1992) recognizes and honors the achievements of UW-Madison faculty and staff across a broad range of activities and services in the creative arts including the areas of outreach, public service, and/or other enterprises involving the larger community.

The award is for $6,500 and may be used for teaching, research, and public service activities.

The Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award (established in 2012) seeks to enrich cultural offerings and inspire future artists in Wisconsin communities under-served by the arts. The award supports faculty or staff in the creation of new art works in areas both emerging and traditional and/or the presentation of new or existing works of art across the state.

The award provides support in the amount of $3,500.

Recipients of the Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award

J Myszka Lewis (Art, 2018)

Aristotle Georgiades (Art, 2017)

Lynda Barry (Art, 2015)

Helen Lee (Art, 2014)

Gerit Grimm (Art, 2013)

Scott Teeple (Music, 2012)

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Achievement in the Arts

The David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship (established in 2000) is designed to support and encourage women graduate students in the visual and performing arts by providing them with an opportunity to present their work in public.

The fellowship carries a grant of $1,500.

Recipients of the David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts

The Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) is presented every other year to an undergraduate and graduate student in the creative arts “who has made the greatest contribution to the field(s) of study covered.”

The award carries a grant of $1,500. This award is offered in 2019.

Recipients of the Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts